Romeo and Juliet Star Olivia Hussey Dead at 73

Olivia Hussey, the actress who rose to fame as Juliet in Franco Zeffirelli’s 1968 film adaptation of Romeo and Juliet, has died at 73, filmmaker and event organizer Marc Huestis confirmed to Vulture. (Huestis, who interviewed Hussey for a Romeo and Juliet tribute that he hosted at the Castro Theatre in 2008, said he was directly informed of her death by Lynn Whiting, the wife of Hussey’s Romeo and Juliet co-star Leonard Whiting.) The...